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Windows 7: (Almost) dropped laptop, still working but very slow

I was unfortunate and clumsy enough to almost drop my laptop the other day. I managed to catch it in the air before it hit the ground, but it immediately turned off because the battery was moved slightly when I caught it. It seemed to work afterwards though - except, as it turned out, it's now incredibly slow.

I figure I have to send it in for repair, but before I spend money on that I just wanted to ask here first - could it be a software issue caused, perhaps, by the power being suddenly cut? Or is a hardware issue much more probable (as I fear)?

on the bottom of the laptop will be a panel maybe 2. unscrew them until you find where your ram is located, and make sure one of the DIMMs (sticks) hasnt come unclipped and is now only running on the one.

Ran CHKDSK, looks like that fixed it actually! In any case, it's much faster now. Currently running sfc /scannow, will post results when it's finished. I can't check the hardware right now as I'm not at home. Thanks for the help, though!

(Almost) dropped laptop, still working but very slow

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